I guess you didn't read through the topic, OP said he wasn't scammed but lost his holdings out of carelessness to a data recovery specialist due to his hard drive that stored his seed phrase was bad, so the whole thing here is either the story is fake or the data specialist somehow knew that he had seed phrase stored there.
The first mistake of the guy was trust a device to hold his bitcoin keys there have been warnings of wear of this devices and that’s what happened. Firstly I see this story mor like fiction and not real, the data recovery specialist must have a knowledge about the whole bitcoin thing and was also aware that the drive brought for repairs has the seed phrase either it was the owner that told him or he cracked the drive and saw the keys. This is the only two scenario because seed phrase on a device doesn’t mean that bitcoin was on that device because bitcoin are stored on the blockchain and only keys stays on the device which means someone has had access to those keys and moved the bitcoin elsewhere.